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Partners in Creation

Poetry of Yehoshua November

By Yehoshua November

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Partners in Creation - Yehoshua November

Topics: Divine Speech, Creation by, Ten Utterances

A thought about how G-d constantly speaks the world into existence.

Partners In Creation

Every moment G-d recreates the world,
whispering over and over again
the ten Divine utterances
that first gave birth to existence,

the way a child’s world is renewed
when he comes home from school
and his father and mother
still live in the same house,
and he hears them talking at the kitchen table.

From the book G-d's Optimism by Yehoshua November

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Yehoshua November’s poetry collection, G-d’s Optimism, is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry and the winner of the 2010 MSR Poetry Book Award. His work has been selected as the winner of the Bernice Slote Award and has also been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Margie, Provincetown Arts, and New Works Review. November teaches writing at Rutgers University and Touro College.

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Posted: July 5, 2011

I know this feeling

I remember, as a child, visiting my grandparents. When I would awaken in the morning, enjoying the warm coziness of my grandparents' old beds, I could hear the echoes of my parents and grandparents conversing around their morning coffee.
It was a multi-level, indescribable feeling of "all was right with my world."
I wonder now, if my own children have something in their own lives that gives them that same feeling.

Another beautiful poem, Jehoshua, I'm going to have to get your book. :)

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